Anjiang Agricultural School Memorial Park 安江农校纪念园

About Anjiang Agricultural School Memorial Park

Yuan Longping graduated in 1953 at the age of 23 and was posted by the Hunan provincial agriculture department to this school, below the Xuefeng mountains in western Hunan. In the early 1960s he found an unusually vigorous rice plant in the experimental field here, which set him on the line of work that became hybrid rice; after examining more than 140,000 panicles and two years of experiment he completed the paper 'Male Sterility in Rice' in February 1966. He worked and lived at the school for 37 years. The school itself continues as the Anjiang campus of Huaihua Vocational and Technical College.

What is preserved is a campus rather than a single museum. More than 30 representative buildings and research facilities from different periods of the school's history survive, together with the experimental field itself. The grounds also contain older layers: Shengjue Temple, the command post used during the Xuefeng Mountain campaign against Japan, and the offices of the Qianyang prefectural revolutionary committee. The park is a national AAA-level tourist area and combines teaching, research, heritage display and education.

What to look for

• The experimental field where the hybrid rice work was done
• Yuan Longping's former residence on the campus
• The hybrid rice birthplace memorial hall
• The school motto stele, the release pond, the Red House and the bomb bell
• Shengjue Temple and the command post of the Xuefeng Mountain campaign, both preserved within the grounds

Location & getting there

Getting to Anjiang Agricultural School Memorial Park

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